How to Install Git on Linux, Mac or Windows?

Git is tool and concept developed by Linux Torvals. Git is free and open source distributed version control system. It has tiny footprint with lignhtning fast performance. It is very good alternative to the SVC, SVN or similar version control systems. It is mainly used by software developers in order to control different software versions. In this tutorial we will learn how to install Git on Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Kali, Fedora, CentOSi RHEL, Arch Linux, Gentoo, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016 and MacOS.

Install Git On Linux

There are different ways to install Git on Linux and its ditributions but the most easy and straightforward way is installing with package managers like apt , yum etc. They provides uptodate version of the Git software.

Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Kali:

We will use apt for deb based distributions. The package name will git

$ sudo apt install git

Install Git on Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Kali

CentOS, RHEL:

rpm based distributions generally uses yum for package management.

$ sudo yum install git

Fedora:

New versions of the Fedora will leave yum and start using dnf so we will use following command in order to install Git on Fedora.

$ sudo dnf install git

Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -Sy git

Gentoo:

sudo emerge --ask --verbose dev-vcs/git

Install Git On Windows

Git developers provides prebuild binaries for Windows versions. We will download these binaries from following link.